The Progress., 1887-12-10
MINI
Epitome of the Week.

Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.
TIE sentence Of jacob Sharp, the noted
New York briber, to imprisonment, was
reversed on the 29th by the Court of Appeals,
and new trial on the basis of the exclu-
sion of some of the more important OF the
evidence will be the result.
AT St Louis on the 29th Henry Jackson
Charles Evans and Mrs jackson were ar
rested for burning James Wilson, three
years Old to death. The accused practice
voodoo rites.
NJ. E GLOVE, of Amboy, Mimi, killed his
wife and then committed suicide on the
29th The two had been living apart for
some time ..-.
STEPHANY BAILEY, of Berkley, S O., who
was arrested recently for the murder Of his
wife, made q confession on the Doth in
which he said that he had been married
three times and that his wives all met death
at his hands.
On the pickerel grounds of Lake Erie,
near Erie, Pa, the fishing boat Maggie was
engulfed In wave on the Goth, and Rob-
ert Pryor and James Mclaughlin We're
drowned. .
The jury at New York in the case of
Johann Most, charged with making an in
cendiary speech, returned verdict Of
guilty on the Goth, notwithstanding the
Judges charge was in favor Of the accused.
GOLD mine containing fabulous wealth
was on the Doth reported to have been dis
covered by DR.. Walter Kempster, superin-
tendent Of the Northern Wisconsin Insane
Asylum, In Montgomery County, Md.
WILLIAM NARswALD died In New York on
the 295h of hydrophobia He was bitten by
Newfoundland dog last August
JOHN B. LANG & Co., wholesalers of dry
goods at London, Ont, failed on the 29th
for $1,000 ,
~ A COMPANY was formed at Boston on the
29th for the purpose of building a telegraph
line from New York to San Francisco
GANG of thieves who had been operating
at the Chicago Stock Yards during the last
year and had stolen about $40 900 worth of
goods from the packing houses was cap
tured on the 29th. -
SECRETARY LAMAR in his annual report on
the 29th says that the amount of land re-
stored to the public domain during his term
OF Office through the orders reyoking the
indemnity Withdrawals is q, ,323, 600 acres,
Jail at Oakland, Fla, on the 29th by O crowd
Of negroes and lynched
sEvEN-EooT vein Of lead, containing
small quantities of silver, was discovered
on the 29th at Royal Center Ind
IHE Mansion House at AndOver Mass,
was destroyed by fire on the Doth The
house was built over one hundred years
ago. and has been used as hotel ever since.
ABRAHAM SAMUELs, a commercial traveller,
sued the actress Lolita at Boston on the
18th for $50, 600 damages She caused him
to miss train by stopping his conveyance,
which was drawn by a lame, worn-out
horse
The completion of the bridge over the
mississippi river ut Dubuque, Ia was cele-
brated on the Goth with great enthusiasm in
that city: The bridge is twenty eight hun
dred feet long and cost $127, 200. The
largest steamer can pass under it easily.
AT Huron, D. T., on the Goth the bodies of
John H. GOwan and his sixteen-year-old
daughter were found frozen stiff.
AT meetings IN Philadelphia on the 29th,
the agents of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company and the Reading Coal and Iron
Company decided to make no advance in
the price of coal for December.
GEORGE DUNHAM, aged sixty years. of New
Britain, Conn, while drunk on the 3Oth
ult fatally beat his sister with q stone and
then killed himself
The receipts of the Chicago Stock Yards
Tor the expired eleven months OF 1887
show, as compared with the corresponding
period last year, an increase of 367, 500
cattle and $40, 900 sheep, and decrease of
1,O21 900 hogs
The revenues Of the Government for the
month of November amounted to about
$50, 100000
In his annual report on the 3Oth ult. the
Postmaster General suggests number of
measures for the improvement Of the serv-
Ice, the more important being the extension
and perfection Of the system of free de-
livery. the reformation Of the system of
employing and paying for railroad transpor-
tation and the establishment of additional
fast-mail service. !
Tm season Of lake navigation which
closed on the 3Oth ult was unusually profit
able to vesselowners, but very disastrous
to insurance companies on account of the
numerous heavy gales.
An old man named David Randall, of Tur-
ner's Falls, Mass, was shot dead ON the 3Oth
ult while sitting"by a window in his house,
and his soventeen-yea r-old son has been ar
rested on charge of having committed the
murder
AT Marsha1ltown on the 3Oth ult was
dedicated with appropriate exercises the
Iowa Soldiers Home ~r~
The State of Michigan is prosecuting
claims against the United States to recover
81, 600, 900, said to be due from the sale of
swamp lands It viii also push claims
against several railroad companies to re-
cover 10000 acres of land held by Con-
gressional grants.
A TRIPLE collision occurred on the 3Oth
ult on the railroad between Butte City, M.
T., and Silver Bow Several trainmen were
injured and many cars wrecked.
THERE is a large number Of Anarchists in
Newark, N. j., considering the size of the
city, and they have become so outspoken
In their denunciati6n of the authorities that
the police fear they may cause trouble.
GEORGE NORMAN, of New London, NO.,
died on the 3Oth ult Of hydrophob1a. He
was bitten by small dog last summer. =
In the Haddock murder trial at Sioux
City. Ia, on the 3Oth ult John Arensdorf,
the defendant, gave his testimony, denying
cOmDliCitv In the crime hnt contradictad